Thread: Going from Paddle to Hanging

I have a TI 3" paddle strop and I purchased a Tony Miller honey brown 2 1/2" hanging with starter. Any body have any recommendations on the switch-over or how easy/hard the transition will be?

The technique will be different and you have to be careful and start off with slow strokes, to avoid nicking the living **** out of the strop. Speed will come naturally, with time, without you even noticing it until you reach the moment of epiphany.

<<< without you even noticing it until you reach the moment of epiphany. >>>

And you will also find that right after you reach that moment of epiphany, and without even noticing, you will take a nice divot right out of your strop. <g>

Practice simply makes you,.... well, more experienced at making the same mistakes


Tony

Originally Posted by Tony Miller

And you will also find that right after you reach that moment of epiphany, and without even noticing, you will take a nice divot right out of your strop. <g>



Tony

How true

That's why God created pumice, leather cleaners and strop dressing

I find the hardest transition is in keeping the strop flat. A paddle does this effortlessly, and a hanging strop simply . . . doesn't.

Originally Posted by Tony Miller

Practice simply makes you,.... well, more experienced at making the same mistakes

Tony

Some truth in that, for sure.

I made the same transition a few months ago, and prefer the hanging strop now.

It's probably not a bad idea to practice stropping an old smooth butter knife or something like that while you're working on tension and stroke. I was prone to marking mine a little at the handle end.